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At age 11 she attends the school of Wyedean School
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At age 15, Rowling was devastated when given the news that her mother had become seriously ill with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease. Instead of ever entering remission, Rowling's mother grew increasingly sick.
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Pressured by her parents to become a secretary, Rowling attended the University of Exeter beginning at age 18 (1983) and studied French. As part of her French program, she lived in Paris for a year.
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Rowling moves to portugal for a teaching job, and there is where she meets her husband Jorge Arantes.
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While on a train to London in 1990, having just spent the weekend apartment-hunting in Manchester, Rowling came up with the concept for Harry Potter. The idea, she says, "simply fell into my head." Pen-less at the time, Rowling spent the remainder of her train-ride dreaming about the story and began to write it down as soon as she arrived home.
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efore starting another full-time job, Rowling was determined to finish her Harry Potter manuscript. Once she had completed it, she typed it up and sent it to several literary agents. After acquiring an agent, the agent shopped around for a publisher. After a year of searching and a number of publishers turning it down, the agent finally found a publisher willing to print the book. Bloomsbury made an offer for the book in August 1996.
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She had become a very good writer, with the first installment of the Harry Potter series
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Rowling continued to write snippets about Harry and Hogwarts, but wasn't done with the book when her mother died on December 30, 1990. Her mother's death hit Rowling hard. In an attempt to escape the sorrow, Rowling accepted a job teaching English in Portugal. Her mother's death translated into more realistic and complex feelings for Harry Potter about his parents' deaths.
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She came out with the fourth installment of the series, and the last before the movies came to the bigs screen
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The first of 7 Harry Potter movies was released today
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She gets married to Dr. Neil Murray
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After a short wait of just a year the second Harry Potter movie come out
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The fifth installment of the Harry Potter series hits shelves
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The third installment of the series comes out on the big screen
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She came out with the sixth Harry Potter book
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With another short wait of just a year the fourth movie dazzles audiences everywhere
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It came out and again dazzled everywere
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The final installment of the series gets published
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As all of the other movies it never fails to disappoint
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It keeps fans waiting and desiring more potter like no other movie in the series
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Rowling is deemed the 12th riched person iin the UK with about 1 billion US dollars
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She told the public that on the 12th of April that she will have a new book coming out
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It all ends on this day when the Harry Potter series comes to a close with this epic finale
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JK Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy, will be published to the public, unlike the Harry Potter books, this book is aimed for more mature readers.
